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Hats off to Loliem villagers for rejecting Film City plan

The villagers of Loliem-Polem should be congratulated for unanimously passing a resolution to reject the government's ambitious plan to set up a Film City in their village on comunidade land at Bhagwati Plateau during their gram sabha meeting on Sunday and for vowing to conserve the above plateau & also to take the fight against the proposal to the highest courts. Well, politicians from our respective governments have brought these projects not to help Goans in terms of employment but to bring in hordes of neighbouring outsiders into the state under some pretext or the other and to slowly create their own vote banks in different parts of Goa. Haven't politicians from our respective governments turned villages of Tivim, Verna, Madkai, Pilerne and surrounding areas (which includes Saligao) into migrant-dominated slums by setting up peanut paying industries at the above places in the name of providing long-term employment for our locals? Anyway, three cheers to the villagers of Loliem-Polem for forcing their panchayat to take the above matter at the gram sabha on top priority basis and for rejecting the government's plan to set up a Film City in Loliem.



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Portuguese passport now gateway to prosperity

NELSON LOPES, Chinchinim
Published Nov 27, 2023, 8:05 PM IST
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In Goa the unemployment is at its peak.  Government jobs command a high premium and ordinary citizens have to cough up bribes. The cumbersome procedure and costs to obtain Portuguese passport is time consuming with the wait being 5 years plus. The facility is shifted to Delhi to make it inconvenient. Goans seek employment and this has nothing to do with nationalism. Many had obtained bilhete de indentidade (identity card), which was till date not  assumed  as…

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